[Photo: Anna Kleinigkeit]

On Monday October 16, European Youth Press, a network of young media makers, and the European Parliament organised the European Youth Media Days, focused on “Modernising media: literacy, challenges & opportunities”.

Christophe Leclercq intervened during a panel on this issue and debated with the audience, composed of young journalists and media professionals from the whole continent. The other speakers of the panel were: Indrek Tarand (MEP, Greens, @indrektarand), Julie Ward (MEP, S&D, @julie4nw), and Wouter Gekiere (Deputy Head of European Affairs, EBU, Brussels). The moderator was the Danish journalist Tatiana Tilly.

Leclercq also showcased his views on how to foster a sustainable European media sector through innovative projects, such as Stars4Media (Erasmus4Media), a skill-building exchange programme at a cross-border level. He stated: “You in this room are the future of the media sector. You are the rising stars that this project is looking for!”.

Fondation EURACTIV is a think-and-do-tank dedicated to fostering a healthy media community in Europe, through training programmes, workshops, and projects fostering media's innovation and skills.@FondEURACTIV

About: Media4EU

Fondation EURACTIV aim in particular to:

Support a healthy media sector by fostering a more proactive EU media policy

Support media improving EU policy coverage at a national and local level

Promote media innovation projects for media and related stakeholders

This will, in turn, contribute to a healthy democracy and the emergence of a European public sphere. At its core, it requires innovation for the media sector, which Fondation EURACTIV aims to contribute to by thinking what a strong EU media strategy should look like.
Our activities:

Provide analysis and facilitate a dialogue between media professionals and EU stakeholders, promoting debates and best practices sharing through conferences training programmes and workshops.

Fondation EURACTIV works when relevant with and draws upon the experience of the EURACTIV media network, present in 13 countries and publishing in 13 languages. We share the same origins, values and work in the same offices.

Fondation EURACTIV is led by Stephen Boucher. Until recently, he was CEO of consoGlobe.com, France’s largest online media on sustainable lifestyles. He also currently teaches on matters related to policy innovation, civic tech and political influence.
He was previously director for European policy at the European Climate Foundation (ECF). Before the ECF, he co-directed for four years the Jacques Delors Institute (then called Notre Europe).